Richard File-Muriel

Associate Professor Richard File-Muriel received an appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico in 2010. He is the department’s Director for Graduate Studies and offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses for Latin American Studies students. File-Muriel’s classes help students improve writing skills in Spanish, gain a strong understanding of the phonological processes in the Spanish language, and learn basic concepts of phonetics and phonology, among others skills. His research focuses on how frequency of use impacts the production and perception of language, and includes an emphasis on research methodology, such as the quantification of lexical frequency and how the composition of a corpus can influence lexical frequency counts.